Cursor's Media Patrol - 03/29/06

'Abramoff gets 5 years, 10 months' in Miami, although supporters argue that their guy "deserves a break," but The Hill reports that the GOP lobbyist 'gets payback in gaming bill.'

Five former FISA judges reportedly "voiced skepticism at a Senate hearing about the president's constitutional authority to order wiretapping on Americans without a court order." Plus: 'D for Danger.'

As a new Gallup poll finds that 'More Americans Now Call Themselves Democrats,' GOP candidates are urged to proclaim themselves "brand W. Republicans."

Baghdad Burning's Riverbend, who is up for a heavyweight book prize, makes a trip to the morgue after reading a news scroll on Iraqi TV: "The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area."

A psychoanalyst and psychologist weighs in on a recent report that mentally ill service members are "heading back to Iraq with a cache of antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications" -- where U.S. troops are encouraged to "take the human being out of it and make them into a video game."

A photo inspires bloggers to talk Turkey, after being displayed on the web site of a GOP candidate seeking to fill the shoes of a gone but not forgotten congressman.